PSYB30H3 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 notes
17 Aug 2018
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The continuities, consistencies, and stabilities in people over time, and the ways in which people change over time. Three most important forms of stability rank order stability: maintaining one"s relative position within a group over time, ex. Between ages 14 and 20, for example, most people become taller. But the rank order of heights tends to remain fairly stable because this form of development affects all people pretty much the same. The tall people at 14 fall generally toward the tall end of the distribution at age 20: the same can apply to personality traits. If people tend to maintain their position on dominance or extraversion relative to the other members of the group over time, then we say that there is high rank order stability to the personality characteristic. If the average level of liberalism or conservatism in a population remains the same with increasing age, we say that the population exhibits high mean level stability on that characteristic.
